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Impact of turbot fishery on cetaceans in the Romanian Black Sea area

open access: yesScientia Marina, 2014
The abundance of the three species of endemic Black Sea marine mammals represented by Delphinus delphis ponticus (Barabasch-Nikiforov 1935), Tursiops truncatus ponticus (Barabasch-Nikiforov 1940) and Phocoena phocoena relicta (Abel 1905) has shown a ...
Gheorghe Radu, Eugen Anton
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Post-Mortem Computed Tomography Pulmonary Findings in Harbor Porpoises (Phocoena phocoena)

open access: yesAnimals, 2022
The application of whole-body post-mortem computed tomography (PMCT) in veterinary and wildlife post-mortem research programs is advancing. A high incidence of pulmonary pathology is reported in the harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena). In this study, the
Nienke W. Kuijpers   +4 more
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Seasonal dynamics of occurrence and group size of three species of cetaceans (Delphinidae and Phocoenidae) on the southwestern coast of the Black Sea

open access: yesScientia Marina, 2020
The spatial and temporal occurrence of cetaceans in the Black Sea and particularly along its southwestern coastline is poorly studied. Based on a total of 609 encounters, we present the analysis of monthly dynamics of (1) the numbers of cetacean ...
Nastassia Uluduz   +2 more
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Sightings of Cetaceans in the waters of Yuzhny Sea Port (Hryhorivsky Estuary, Black Sea) in 2015–2016 [PDF]

open access: yesПраці Теріологічної школи, 2016
The use of transformed coastal ecosystems by the Black Sea cetaceans is an important, but little studied issue. In 2015–2016, coastal visual observations of cetaceans were conducted in the waters of Yuzhny Sea Port.
Оksana Savenko   +3 more
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Testicular morphology and spermatogenesis in harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) [PDF]

open access: yesTheriogenology, 2019
Knowledge about reproductive parameters in male harbour porpoises such as testicular histology and germ cell maturation as well as seasonal changes in spermatogenesis is scarce. Thus, the aim of the present study was to report changes in the histological appearance of the testicular morphology of neonatal and juvenile harbour porpoises during ...
Kesselring, T   +8 more
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First report of infestation by a parasitic copepod (Pennella balaenopterae) in a harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) from the Aegean Sea: a case report

open access: yesVeterinární Medicína, 2014
An adult, female harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena relicta) was found stranded on the southern Aegean Sea coast of Turkey. Thirteen holes made by copepods were observed on the lateral sides of the porpoise.
E. Danyer   +5 more
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An evolutionary divergent pestivirus lacking the Npro gene systemically infects a whale species

open access: yesEmerging Microbes and Infections, 2019
Pestiviruses typically infect members of the order Artiodactyla, including ruminants and pigs, although putative rat and bat pestiviruses have also been described. In the present study, we identified and characterized an evolutionary divergent pestivirus
Wendy K. Jo   +9 more
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Phocoena phocoena

open access: yes, 1982
Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:77. TYPE LOCALITY: Baltic Sea, “Swedish Seas.” DISTRIBUTION: Temperate to arctic N. Pacific and N. Atlantic; isolated population in Black Sea. COMMENT: Reviewed by Gaskin et al., 1974, Mamm. Species, 42:1-8. PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II as Order Cetacea.
Honacki, James H.   +2 more
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Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) aggressive behavior towards other cetacean species in the western Mediterranean

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Aggressive behavior of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) towards conspecifics is widely described, but they have also often been reported attacking and killing harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) around the world. However, very few reports exist
J. L. Crespo-Picazo   +8 more
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Phocoena phocoena

open access: yes, 1993
Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:77. TYPE LOCALITY: "Habitat in Oceono Europaeo, & Balthico." (= Baltic Sea, "Swedish Seas"). DISTRIBUTION: N Pacific and N Atlantic: arctic to cold-temperate waters, isolated population in Black Sea; extends south to Senegal in the E Atlantic. STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; IUCN - Insufficiently
James G. Mead, Robert L. Brownell, Jr.
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